Description |
xvi, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Theoretical Perspectives: Recasting Global Life -- Ch. 1. An Emergent Epoch -- Ch. 2. People, Collectivities, and Change -- Ch. 3. Sources and Consequences of Fragmegration -- Ch. 4. Local Worlds -- Ch. 5. Global Worlds -- Ch. 6. Private Worlds -- Ch. 7. Movement among Twelve Worlds -- Ch. 8. Emergent Spaces, New Places, and Old Faces: Immigrants and the Proliferation of Identities -- Pt. 2. Conceptual Equipment: Retooling the Storehouse -- Ch. 9. Normative and Complexity Approaches -- Ch. 10. The Skill Revolution -- Ch. 11. The Information Revolution: Both Powerful and Neutral -- Ch. 12. Structures of Authority: In Crisis or in Place? -- Ch. 13. Spheres of Authority -- Pt. 3. Issues, Processes, and Structures as Distant Proximities -- Ch. 14. Progress toward Human Rights -- Ch. 15. Retreat from Human Rights: The Challenge of Systemic Hatred -- Ch. 16. Corruption as a Global Issue -- Ch. 17. Prosperity and Poverty -- Ch. 18. Governance in Fragmegrative Space |
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Pt. 4. Postscript -- Ch. 19. A Transformed Observer in a Transforming World: Confessions of a Pre-Postmodernist |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Globalization.
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International relations.
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LC no. |
2002031741 |
ISBN |
0691095248 paperback |
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069109523X cased |
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